So, crab cake muffins. If you have been reading Framed Cooks for any amount of time you are used to the fact that I will muffin-ize pretty much anything. French toast. Meatloaf. CINNAMON ROLLS. I have a recipe for cheeseburger muffins lurking in my pile of things I need to tell you about. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I took one of the Southern husband's Very Favorite Things and cooked it up for him in muffin form. Tender on the inside, crispy on the outside crab cake muffins. Let's make them! Read More & Get the Recipe

I wrote this recipe for creamy, dreamy avocado coconut crab soup when the Southern husband and I first started the Whole 30 last summer, but even if it didn't have All The Healthy Things in it, it would still make my top ten soup list because it is both so dang delicious AND it is ready in about ten minutes. Yep. You are five minutes away from a bowl of that deliciousness you are looking at up there, and how perfect is that? And when you put that together with the healthy personality of this soup...well, what are we waiting for? Let's make it! Read More & Get the Recipe

I love sushi. There's something so fresh and delicious and healthy about it - it's the very definition of good and good for you. And while I am usually up for trying to recreate my restaurant favorites in my own kitchen, there's something about making sushi rolls that I just can't wrap my mind around. So I decided to tackle that favorite of all favorites, the California roll...but in salad form. Thereby saving myself and the Southern husband from a meltdown in the kitchen from me trying to roll up all the delicious ingredients in seaweed paper. That sound you just heard was the Southern husband heaving a giant sigh of relief. So if you think you might like some California roll salad in your life too, read on! Read More & Get the Recipe

Oh, sugar snap peas, you pretty little things, you. You are back in season! Which means I can buy heaps of you at my farm market and snack on you while I am tossing you into every recipe that calls for anything green. Don't tell the regular old green beans, but there's something about your slightly sweet and crunchy selves that has you at the very top of my favorite summer veggie list, duking it out with the tomatoes and the corn. And since the tomatoes and the corn aren't ready yet, it's sugar snap peas time in my kitchen. As in, pasta tossed with butter, crabmeat and, yes, a whole mess of sugar snaps! Read More & Get the Recipe

I am helpless in the face of sliders of any kind. There's something so cute about their bite-sized-ness that gets me every time. They usually come in burger or meatball or chicken form, though, and I thought it was high time the crab cakes got their turn. Little teeny versions of crab cakes sitting on Boston bibb lettuce with a small dollop of tartar sauce, all on a small soft roll. Am I right? I think I'm right. Read More & Get the Recipe

The holidays are always such a swirl of dinners, parties and deliciousness! In addition to all the other festivities, the month of December includes my birthday, the teenager's birthday (who is now not a teenager anymore. Sniffle.) and our anniversary. So on those rare December evenings when we aren't out celebrating I've been cooking light. As in appetizers for dinner. As in this quick and delicious tiny little crab cake bites...which of course would be fabulous as the opening act for one of the many holiday celebrations too! Read More & Get the Recipe

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